Barreto (Father Jaime de Gouveia)
Original title: Barreto (Padre Jaime de Gouveia)
Biography of Padre Jaime de Gouveia Barreto (b. 1887), a Madeiran priest and naturalist who collected lichens and fungi, directed the Funchal Seminary museum and served as a chaplain in France during the First World War.
He was born in Porto Moniz (‘Moniz’s harbour’) on 13 May 1887 and attended the Episcopal Seminary of Funchal (Seminário Episcopal do Funchal), being ordained priest (presbítero) in 1910. Having assisted the Revd Father Ernst Schmitz in preparing and identifying the natural history specimens in the Seminary museum, he developed a certain fondness for this kind of work, and for that reason he was later put in charge of the museum when that priest left for Jerusalem. He collected a large number of Madeiran lichens and fungi; the former were studied by Professor Navas and the latter by Professor Torrend. He is a member of the Natural Sciences Society of Saragossa. Called up to attend the school for militia officers (oficiais milicianos) in Lisbon during the state of war between Portugal and Germany, he succeeded in being appointed army chaplain with the rank of second lieutenant (alferes capelão) to the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps in France. He left for that country on 23 May 1918 and returned home in June 1919.
He is a professor at the Diocesan Seminary and director of its natural science collections. He was granted the title of monsignor and is a canon of Funchal Cathedral (the Sé).
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Abroad
- France
Country where Barreto served as chaplain with the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps.
France is a country where several Madeirans fought and died in the First World War, including Gabriel Rocha de Gouveia and João Paulo da Veiga Pestana. It was also a place of study, of exile and of refuge for Madeirans. It was the origin of the expedition behind the Saque dos Franceses and the intended destination of the fugitives in the Machim legend.
- Funchal Cathedral (the Sé)
Funchal. Cathedral of which Barreto became a canon.
The Sé do Funchal is the cathedral of Funchal, in the parish of Sé. It was begun in 1493, became a parish seat in 1508 and a cathedral in 1514. It was the starting point of processions and the place of the vow to São Tiago, and bishops are buried there.
- Funchal Seminary
Funchal. Seminary where Barreto studied and later taught, and whose museum he directed.
The Seminário do Funchal is the diocesan seminary in Funchal. Among those who studied there were Manuel Pestana dos Reis, Padre José Gonçalves de Aguiar and the poet Francisco Álvares de Nóbrega, who was expelled. Padre Ernesto Schmitz taught there, became vice-rector and founded a museum, which Padre Jaime de Gouveia Barreto, a former student and teacher, later directed.
- Jerusalem
Israel. City to which Padre Schmitz went, leaving the museum in Barreto's charge.
Jerusalem is the city where Padre Ernesto João Schmitz directed the Hospice of St Paul from 1908. On his departure he left his museum in the charge of Padre Jaime de Gouveia Barreto.
- Lisbon
Portugal. Where Barreto attended the reserve officers' school.
The Portuguese capital, seat of the Relação court and of the Misericórdia whose privileges and statutes were extended to Funchal. Henrique Franco de Sousa studied at its Royal Academy of Fine Arts, and Luiz José Baiardo moved there in 1821.
- Porto Moniz
Barreto's birthplace.
North-western parish and municipality with a quay and a tolerable port that serves as a good landing when southerly winds close the south coast. It has one of the oldest Magdalene chapels in northern Madeira, whose feast falls on 22 July. It was the birthplace of Dr Manuel Gomes Jardim.
- Saragossa
Spain. Seat of the Natural Sciences Society of which Barreto was a member.
Seat of the Natural Sciences Society of which Barreto was a member.
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Madeiran priest and naturalist born in Porto Moniz, director of the Funchal Seminary natural-history museum and a canon of Funchal Cathedral.
- Ernst Schmitz1845–1922
Priest and naturalist whom Barreto assisted with the Seminary museum collections, and whom he succeeded as its director when Schmitz left for Jerusalem.
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Professor who studied the Madeiran lichens collected by Barreto.
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Professor who studied the Madeiran fungi collected by Barreto.